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Hey, everybody, on this episode of the Bobbycast, it's Cleto Cordero from Flatland Cavalry.

These guys went from grinding it out in the van to building a cult-like fan base and now racking up over a billion streams and land in songs and shows like Yellowstone like all my friends

love them they're such a cool band they've got a new album called work of heart it's their fitz studio

album they're all over the place love the band love the lead singer that's who we're going to talk to

uh kately butts is his wife she's been a guest on a previous Bobbycast, a big fan of her. So here we go. My conversation with Cletto Cordero of Flatland Cavalry. Cleto, good to see you, man. You too. Good to be here. So your name, so I got to start there because it's Cleto, but do people call you Clito? Yeah. If they haven't heard it. Yeah. First time in kindergarten is when I heard that. And I didn't even know that was who they were talking about was me. But it was pronounced Cleto my whole life growing up until I entered the world. So what, are you named after somebody? My grandfather, Scoleto Martinez. He was a farmer. And I never got to meet him. He passed before. I was born. Mom's dad or dad's dad? My mom's dad. So she was pretty close to him? Very much. That's cool. We named our baby after we just had a baby. Thanks. We named her after her grandpa so that's my wife's dad yeah yeah that's what

it is did that picked that up beforehand or as a girl okay yeah so uh my wife's dad his name is betsy

no i'm kidding um so my wife's dad which is the baby's grandpa his name is billy. No, I'm kidding. So my wife's dad, which is the baby's grandpa, his name's Billy.

And we were thinking about names. I really fought for Bobby with an eye, if I'm being honest.

I was fighting for it hard. And my wife's like, we're not naming our daughter after you.

And then there was also the, you don't want a kid, this is her,

you don't want a kid to be named after you

because then there's always

going to be the pressure

of being your kid.

But I have a fake name. Like Bobby's my real name, but Bones is not my real last name. So nobody's going to know that. And so I said, okay, if we can't do Bobby, let's do Billy after your dad with an IE.

And she was like, that's it.

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